Content descriptions

General Note:

Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 2003 by Shueisha, Inc., Tokyo"--Page facing title page. "This book reads from right to left"--Page 4 of cover.

Summary, etc.:

When high school student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god, he discovers that any person whose name is written in it dies, so Light decides to use the notebook to rid the world of evil.